The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials.

About Jesus Christ and the Church, I simply know they’re just one thing.

I always tell people that religious institutions and political institutions should be separate. So while I’m telling people this, I myself continue with them combined. Hypocrisy!

But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.

Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, ‚Be still, and know that I am God.‘ But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don’t need to carry it around with you after you’ve crossed the river.

People forget… that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that’s what happened.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

Kings will be tyrants from policy, when subjects are rebels from principle.

I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

When you become a Christian, something truly amazing happens: God comes to live inside your heart. You become the home of God.

Being no bigot myself to any mode of worship, I am disposed to endulge the professors of Christianity in the church, that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct plainest easiest and least liable to exception.

Communism is a religion that is inspired, directed and motivated by the Devil himself who has declared war against Almighty God.

Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.

One of the most important concepts of revealed religion is that of a sacred covenant.

I think one of the great things about the United States has been our ability to maintain a distinction between our military and domestic law enforcement.

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

I don’t think I’ve ever been an agnostic. I’ve always thought there’s a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there’s a world to come.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don’t like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don’t expect freedom to survive very long.

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?… It is necessary to accompany them with mercy.

You can never have a revolution in order to establish a democracy. You must have a democracy in order to have a revolution.

A church without women would be like the apostolic college without Mary. The Madonna is more important than the apostles, and the church herself is feminine, the spouse of Christ and a mother.

To you I’m an atheist; to God, I’m the Loyal Opposition.

The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important.

Your daily life is your temple and your religion. When you enter into it take with you your all.

We must respect the other fellow’s religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! ‚Father, the atheists?‘ Even the atheists. Everyone!

The word ‚God‘ usually signifies ‚Lord‘, but every lord is not a God. It is the dominion of a spiritual being which constitutes a God: a true, supreme, or imaginary dominion makes a true, supreme, or imaginary God.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

I’m a Christian by choice.

Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We’re more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first – rock and roll or Christianity.

Our faith is released as we say, pray and do the Word.

I am a Catholic, not so committed to the church, but to the idea of the Virgin, the female face of God.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time.

Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life.

There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time.

Find new ways to spread the word of God to every corner of the world.

Our God is a forgiving God.

My grandmother took me to church on Sunday all day long, every Sunday into the night. Then Monday evening was the missionary meeting. Tuesday evening was usher board meeting. Wednesday evening was prayer meeting. Thursday evening was visit the sick. Friday evening was choir practice. I mean, and at all those gatherings, we sang.

Well, we can’t say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

When I came to Delhi and noticed an insider view, I felt what it was, and I was surprised to see it. It seemed as if dozens of separate governments are running at the same time in one main government. It appeared that everyone has its own fiefdom.

I was raised a Catholic on both sides of the family. I went to a Catholic grade school and thought everybody in the country was Catholic, because that’s all I ever was associated with.

Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be – protect themselves. That’s why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.

If any of you should ask me for an epitome of the Christian religion, I should say that it is in one word – prayer. Live and die without prayer, and you will pray long enough when you get to hell.

I pay attention to politics and technology.

Religion is the masterpiece of the art of animal training, for it trains people as to how they shall think.

Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

I’m amazed sometimes by the Christians who don’t really believe that God wants to help them and bless them.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

For ninety per cent of those who view him from outside, the Christian God looks like a great landowner administering his estates, the world. Now this conventional picture, which is too well justified by appearances, corresponds in no way to the dogmatic basis or point of view of the Gospels.

I don’t want to just preach to the church. I feel like I have a broader message.

The Iranian government is undoubtedly a severe danger to its own population, but not beyond that.